歌曲名 Ave Maria Morales

歌手名 Marty Robbins

作词：M Robbins

作曲：M Robbins

A long time ago

In the small border town of Nogalas

There lived a beautiful Mexican girl

Named Ava Maria Morales

Her dark hair would glisten and shine

When touched by the sun

And she loved a cowboy that told her he worked

On a ranch just outside of Tucson

Diamonds he gave to her caused many people to say

How could he give her such diamonds

As these on thirty a month cowboy pay

She paid no attention to

What they said or what they did

Cause she never doubted he worked on a ranch

Out of Tucson just like he said

Then to Nogalas one morming came riding a stranger

He wore a badge on the front of his vest

The new one in town was a Ranger

And he showed some pictures of outlaws

And bandits he chased

And one of the pictures caused Ava Maria

To turn with fear on her face

Ava Maria

It's true what they said

Your cowboy's an outlaw

With a price on his head

The Ranger left town on the trail

Of the outlaws he hunted

Ava Maria prayed he'd never catch

The cowboy she loved and she wanted

Cause deep in her heart

She beleived that the Ranger was wrong

The outlaw just looked like the cowboy that worked

On the ranch just outside of Tucson

True love would never let Ava Maria believe it

And there in her window each evening she'd light

A candle and hoped he would see it

The years turned her dark hair to silver

But love still lived on

She prayed every night for the cowboy that worked

On the ranch just outside of Tucson

One night the town of Nogalas was saddened to see

The window where Ava Maria would watch was dark

Where a light used to be

Some love stories live for a while

And then they are gone

For over a century the story of Ava Maria

Has lived on and on

Ava Maria

If your spirit lives on

I hope you have found him

At the ranch just outside of Tucson